Cristea Roberts Gallery is delighted to present Kings & Queens, a new suite of fifteen prints by Hew Locke (b. 1959) the artist’s first major print project with the gallery. Works from this series are available to buy as a set or single prints. The series is presented in a bespoke portfolio box designed by the artist, featuring one of the artist’s distinctive, parading figures on its cover.

Hew Locke is best known for his sculpture and large-scale installation, such as the 2022 Tate Britain commission The Procession, exhibited in the Duveen Galleries. The artist who was recently awarded Apollo’s 2025 Artist of the Year, has created a series of screenprints that combine catalysed ink and gold-leaf.

In Locke’s prints, a bold procession of characters marches forward in vibrant colours. Known for a style that has been described as “postcolonial baroque” Locke’s ensemble evoke the spirit of Carnival, of costume and masquerade, in the wake of colonial legacies, such as migration and the diaspora.

Hew Locke

Kings & Queens, 2025

A portfolio of 15 screenprints with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Kings and Queens 1, Paper and Image: 76.1 x 77.1 cm - 30 x 30 3/8 in
Kings and Queens 2-15, Paper and Image, each: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 1, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 77.1 cm - 30 x 30 3/8 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 2, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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“It is a parade, a procession… you can work on a costume for a whole year, and then be King or Queen for a day. It’s about darkness and light – fragments of history, soldiers, sailors, drag queens and kings, carnival kings and queens, gods and goddesses.” 

- Hew Locke

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Kings & Queens 3, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 4, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 5, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 6, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 7, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 8, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 9, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Locke’s use of gold-leaf reflects his interest in the symbolic qualities of the precious metal, its excess, as well as overlapping histories of global market capitalism. By interposing imperial iconography with figurative characters that shimmer with gold, Locke illustrates the transformative power of processions, art, and parades. Through printmaking, the artist also investigates the potential of seriality to fully explore artistic concepts and ideas.

Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 10, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 11, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 12, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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“This body of work required the refining and honing of designs that make sense both as individual artworks, and as narrative groups. I love the idea that people can create their own story by choosing and arranging the Kings & Queens that really speak to them.”

 

- Hew Locke

Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 13, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 14, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke

Kings & Queens 15, 2025

Screenprint with catalysed and vinyl inks and 23 carat gold leaf on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Satin paper
Paper and Image: 76.1 x 64.8 cm - 30 x 25 1/2 in
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Hew Locke: Passages

Hew Locke's first major survey in the US, Hew Locke: Passages, is currently on show at the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut until 11 January 2026.

Next year the exhibition will travel to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. 

Click here to learn more about the artist

View Hew Locke's new prints at Art Basel Miami Beach (5 – 7 December), where they will have their first public exhibition, and can be purchased at Cristea Roberts Gallery, booth D6.

 

Get in touch if you have questions about these prints or would like to come in and view them at the gallery in London.

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